Enders Game Analysis

The Power of Influence
In Orson Scott Card’s Enders Game, Card revels that power correlates to influence in his writing and through connections made in book for example the influence/ power Bonzo had on the other individuals during battle school and influenced them to defy ender. In Enders game Orson Scott showed many ways that influence correlated with power. The most noticeable ways where through fear, words, and weakness/vulnerabilities.
The most common why power was used to influence in enders games was through fear. Through the microsystem in battle school everyone feared ender and what he could do. This worked in ender favor because he could persuade or get influence when dealing with argent people. In Ender’s Game Orson Card made sure Ender always have the option to resort to fear, but also made Ender fear himself because Ender didn’t want to become peter. Orson Card showed that Ender was a newer and improved version of peter, because In book Orson Scott stated that one of the reasons why peter wasn’t accepted in to battle school was that he was too vicious and inconsiderate about what his actions would cause on his friends and family around him. Which persuaded Colonel Graff that if he couldn’t make Ender fear himself and what he could become if unhinged , and transform in to peter or worse .

The next method used in Enders
In a microsystem most people only talk to the same people rapidly, which can show how persons weakness. For example Ender was isolated for most of the book the reason why Colonel Graff is so that he could use Ender feeling of loneliness against or to persuade him. An example for the book we weakness where used in a good why was when Bernard started sending email or Ender and humiliating Ender. Then Ender found out Bernard weakness which was the didn’t like it when people retitled, so Ender used that against